Vocabulary
Marigolds
Statement on the Assassination of MLK
Lift Every Voice and Sing
Rhetoric Notes
100
Define the word "prosperity"
What is the condition of being successful or thriving; economic well-being?
100
Find an example of a simile in "Marigolds" and write it down.
ex: What is "like a house that a child might have constructed from cards"?
100
Who gives this speech and why is he an important figure?
Who is Robert F. Kennedy? He is the brother of former president John F. Kennedy. He was also a president elect before he was assassinated after giving a speech in 1968.
100
Give one word or phrase to describe the "tone" of the third verse of the song?
What is "hopeful", "prayerful", "moving on"
100
Name the type of rhetoric: "We want to buy the truck because it has great features, we learned this from the commercial!"
What is "logos"?
200
Define the word "native".
What is "belonging to a particular place by birth"?
200
What are the only two things that the narrator remembers about the hometown of her youth in the beginning of the story?
What are the dust and Miss Lottie's marigolds.
200
Who are the three groups that Kennedy believes will be saddened by King's assassination in paragraph 2?
Who are the audience of listeners in front of him, their fellow citizens, and people who love peace all over the world?
200
Name the type of rhetoric: "We want to donate to the SPCA because we have an emotional response to seeing these animals."
What is "pathos"?
300
Define the word "abide".
What is "to accept or act in accordance with (a rule, decision, or recommendation)?
300
How does Lizabeth react when Joey suggests they go to Miss Lottie's house?
What is she immediately agrees?
300
Describe the tone of the second paragraph of the speech. Use advanced vocabulary.
What is "sorrowful" or "melancholy".
300
Cite an example of a metaphor in this song. Explain how it is a metaphor.
What is "where the white gleam of our bright star is cast"? (Johnson, Stanza 2)
300
Name the type of rhetoric: "We want to buy proactive because we trust Julianne Hough because she is a celebrity and she talks to us as if she knows us."
What is "ethos"?
400
Define the word "savageness".
What is "not domesticated or under human control"?
400
What in Lizabeth's life causes her to see Miss Lottie as an antagonist?
What is she heard her father cry for the first time because he didn't have a job. Because her home life is difficult, her only thoughts are feelings of "bewilderment and fear" (Collier, paragraph 44). She therefore, feels the need to destroy something beautiful of Miss Lottie's because she is losing something beautiful in her own life.
400
In paragraph 3 of the speech, Kennedy makes a specific claim. Cite evidence to indicate what it is.
What is "it's perhaps well to ask what kind of a nation we are and what direction we want to move in." (Kennedy, paragraph 3)
400
Give an example of hyperbole in the poem.
What is "drunk with the wine of the world"? (Johnson, Stanza 3)
400
This type of rhetoric evokes a cognitive, rational response.
What is "logos"?
500
Define the word "polarization".
What is "division into two contrasting groups or sets of opinions or beliefs"?
500
Give evidence to show that the narrator's point-of-view of Miss Lottie changes at the end of the story.
What is "the witch was no longer a witch but only a broken old woman who had dared to create beauty in the midst of ugliness and sterility." (Collier, paragraph 62)
500
Cite a piece of evidence Kennedy uses to elicit empathy from his audience.
What is "For those of you who are black and are tempted to fill with- be filled with hatred and mistrust of the injustice of such an act, against all white people, I would only say that I can also feel in my own heart the same kind of feeling." (Kennedy, paragraph 5)
500
Cite a piece of evidence from the text that Johnson uses to elicit empathy from the reader.
What is "Stony the road we trod, bitter the chast'ning rod"? (Johnson, paragraph 2)
500
This type of rhetoric refers to the trustworthiness of the speaker.
What is "ethos"?
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